Need Some Help..

[MotherMayI]

I recently moved to the Czech Republic, and yesterday received my computer via courier.

Initially when I received it the computer booted but no video output to a monitor at all.

I took apart and rebuilt the whole thing, it booted. Popped in a Fedora livedisk and it got all the way to the desktop, allbeit a bit buggy and black coloured.

I thought I was in business, so put the sides back on the case and booted again.. Got to BIOS quite a few times, while I dug around a load of unlabeled CD's for my Windows one.

Now the whole computer hangs at POST, on the 'abit' logo (IP35E). I have tried all the RAM sticks on their own, resetting CMOS, etc. and am frankly out of ideas.

Anything else anybody could suggest to try would be much appreciated.

One thing to note, initially when the computer gave no video output I believed the video card had been damaged in transit, as the monitor lead was not able to reach the appropriate holes with the screws and the backboard of it looked a bit bent. Now, Im honestly not sure.

Motherboard: IP35-E
CPU: Q6600
Graphics: Radeon 5770 HD
Ram: This is from memory, not 100%, but 8gb DDR2 I believe.


Any help would be much appreciated, Im lost.

 

[CinderzFTW]

Erm, sounds as though it could be short circuiting. Any spacers installed at all???

Could try a few things... run with onboard video if you have any, swap test the ram sticks, run with just the core components in i.e. no hdds etc connected.

usually rules out any problems

also any overclocks??? could try clearing the CMOS